• Special characters... as in the !

    The matching system for + and @ mentions uses the same convention as Twitter and Google Plus, which means it matches on alphanumeric usernames only.

    Hence it does not work for special characters.

  • Yes and yes.

    And visit their profile and hit "Send Message" and it will populate the user as the To recipient via their profile id.

    Though @47910 doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

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